Sacred and Profane: Unusual Customs and Strange Rituals 9789353885168, 9353885167

Sacred and Profane : Unusual Customs and Strange Rituals [1 ed.] 9789353885168, 9789353885151

The battle between scientific temper and superstition has raged since ages. One may believe that unusual rituals and cus

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Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity: Sacred and Profane 978-0754635352

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity brings together a set of papers that consider anew issues of trave

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Between Sacred and Profane: Researching Religion and Popular Culture 9780755624928, 9780857710826

Over the past ten years there has been an explosion of interest in how religion and the sacred connect with the media an

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The Impact of Culture and Cultures Upon Jewish Customs and Rituals: Collected Essays 9781618114921

This book discusses the development of practices associated with customs and artifacts used in Jewish ceremonies when vi

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Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Dickens, Trollope, and the Victorian Cathedral Town 9780203934975, 9780415979528, 0415979528

This study examines the unique cultural space of Victorian cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charle

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Recasting Caste: From the Sacred to the Profane

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The Geek's Guide to the Strange & Unusual: Poltergeists, Ghosts, and Demons 9781523332953, 1523332956

The Geek’s Guide to the Strange & Unusual is meant for those who have a sense of adventure and are looking for answe

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The Body Adorned: Dissolving Boundaries Between Sacred and Profane in India's Art 0231140282, 9780231140287

The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of premodern Indian art. From the powerful god

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The Power of the Word : The Sacred and the Profane [1 ed.] 9781443879903, 9781443875288

This book brings together twelve authors who look at the concept of the “word” from several different perspectives, insp

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The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials 1683401034, 9781683401032

Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology an

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